Labs for higher education

Empower learning through real-world cloud environments

Labs is a new capability of the Antyxsoft cloud platform, designed specifically for universities, colleges and research institutions. Educators create secure, isolated and fully customisable cloud environments for hands-on learning, experimentation and advanced research — without the operational overhead of traditional lab infrastructure.

Courses, labs and virtual machinesInstructor and student viewsReports you can export
Semester at a glance
240
Student labs
6
Course templates
0
Racks to maintain
Faculty deliver practical, cloud-based exercises that mirror real industry scenarios, while IT teams keep full control over security, governance and resource usage.

Purpose-built for academic institutions

Higher education requires flexibility, scalability and cost transparency. Labs provides a streamlined way to deliver cloud resources to students and researchers — provisioned in minutes, governed centrally, and retired automatically when the term ends.

Ready before the first lecture

A course template becomes a whole cohort's environments in one action — no imaging weekends, no machine rooms.

Spend you can defend

Quotas per class, automatic expiry and per-department usage reporting, so the finance office sees where the budget went.

Industry-shaped exercises

Students work with the same compute, Kubernetes and GPU services production teams use.

Isolation

Full isolation for coursework and research

Each lab runs in a dedicated, sandboxed environment. Students can break things, rebuild them and try the risky approach without affecting production systems, their classmates or another class running the same exercise.
One isolated environment per student or per group
Private networking with VPC and firewall boundaries
Reset to the template in one action when an exercise goes wrong
LabState
cs301-lab-04
running
cs301-lab-05
running
ml502-gpu-01
provisioning
cs210-lab-12
expired
Expired environments release their resources automatically — nothing keeps billing after the session ends.
Structure

Courses hold labs, labs hold virtual machines

Build the course once and define the labs inside it, each with the machines, images and tooling the exercise needs. Enrolled students get their own copy, identical for everyone, so the first hour of the session is spent on the subject rather than on installation problems.
Create courses and labs from the instructor dashboard
Attach virtual machines per lab, including GPU instances and Marketplace images
Reuse a course next term without rebuilding it
All courses
Intro to Linux & networking
3 labs · 30 students
active
Container orchestration
4 labs · 24 students
active
Deep learning research
2 labs · 12 students · GPU
draft
Create a course, add its labs, attach the virtual machines each lab needs — then enrol the cohort.
Roles

One dashboard for instructors, a simpler one for students

Instructors manage courses, labs, students and reports. Students see only what they are enrolled on — their courses, their labs and their machines.

Instructor manage courses & labs
Manage courses
All courses
Create course
Manage labs
All labs
Create lab
All students
Export reports
Total students
66
Total labs
9
Total courses
3
Virtual machines
42
Enrol students, watch which labs are running, and export usage per course for the department.
Student only their own work
Dashboard
My courses
My labs
Profile
My courses
2
My labs
4
Two-factor authentication
Every account can require a one-time code as well as a password, and login history is kept per user.
+ Enable 2FA
Students start their lab, do the exercise and hand it back — no access to anyone else's environment.

What institutions run in Labs

From a first-year networking exercise to a funded research project, the same platform covers it.

Teaching

Hands-on coursework

Weekly labs for operating systems, networking, databases and DevOps modules, identical for every student in the cohort.

Certification

Training and exam labs

Timed, reproducible environments for certification tracks and continuing-education programmes, wiped after each sitting.

Research

AI and ML experimentation

GPU-backed workspaces for model training and data-intensive research, with storage that scales for the duration of the project.

Events

Hackathons and summer schools

Hundreds of short-lived environments provisioned for a weekend and released automatically when it ends.

From syllabus to running labs in four steps

01

Build the template

Set the resources, image, tooling and datasets the exercise needs, once.

02

Set the boundaries

Quota, lifetime and network policy for the class, approved by central IT.

03

Invite the cohort

Every student gets their own isolated environment from the same template.

04

Let it expire

Environments retire on schedule and the resources — and the spend — stop.

Academic pricing, on the resources you actually use

Labs is priced on the compute, GPU and storage a department consumes, with academic rates and no charge for bandwidth or egress. Start free while you evaluate, then tell us your course sizes and term dates and we will put a figure against them.

Questions from faculty and IT

Who is Antyxsoft Labs for?

Universities, colleges and research institutions. Faculty use it to deliver practical cloud-based exercises, students get an isolated environment per lab, and central IT keeps control of security, governance and spend.

Is each student environment really isolated?

Yes. Every lab runs in a dedicated, sandboxed environment, so a student can experiment freely without affecting production systems, their classmates or another class running the same exercise.

What can instructors see and report on?

Instructors see every course, lab and virtual machine they own, along with the students enrolled on each. Reports export from the dashboard, so a department can account for usage per course or per term.

Do labs support GPUs and AI workloads?

Yes. Templates can target GPU instances for machine-learning coursework and research, alongside standard compute, Kubernetes and storage resources.

How much does Labs cost?

Labs uses academic pricing based on the resources a department consumes. Start free while you evaluate, and send us your course sizes and term dates for a quote.

Setting up your first course? The docs have the exact steps.

Creating courses and labs, attaching virtual machines, enrolling students and exporting reports — all in the knowledge base.

Give the next cohort a real cloud to learn on

Start free with one course, see how quickly a template becomes thirty working environments, then scale it across the department.